Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour tops North American box office

American pop superstar Taylor Swift filled cinemas across North America over the weekend with The Eras Tour, filmed during her eponymous tour.

According to estimates, the film grossed $96 million in revenue during its first weekend. “This is an extraordinary debut,” said analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. Box office sales between Friday and Sunday for this opus which includes scenes filmed during three different concerts were certainly lower than certain forecasts but these remain “gigantic figures”, according to the expert.

Until now, he notes, the prize for the best grossing films shot at concerts went to Justin Bieber with Never Say Never, which collected a total of 73 million dollars in 2011, and the film This Is It released a few months after the death of Michael Jackson in 2009, with $72.1 million. Taylor Swift shattered those records in just three days, making it the best weekend at the North American box office since this summer's simultaneous release of Barbie and Oppenheimer . The AMC theater chain that distributes the film encouraged spectators to dance, sing, and generally act as if they were at a real concert.

Far behind, in second place, is The Exorcist: Devotion, which collected $11 million in revenue, according to the specialist firm Exhibitor Relations. Leslie Odom Jr. and Ann Dowd star in this new horror film, 50 years after the original. In third place, we find the animated children's film PAW Patrol: Super Patrol with seven million dollars in tickets sold at the box office. This was followed by another horror film, Saw X ($5.7 million), which received positive reviews in the press. The sci-fi film The Creator, which pits John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe and Allison Janney against artificial intelligence, is in fifth place with $4.3 million.

Here is the rest of the top 10:

6. Mystery in Venice ($2.1 million)

7. The Blind (two million)

8. The Nun: The Curse of Saint Lucy (1.6 million)

9. The Equalizer 3 (960.000 dollars)

10 Dumb Money (920.000 dollars)